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Eugene Bovee was drafted into the United States Army in May 1942. He served as a military intelligence lieutenant with a censorship group until 1945. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston, Bovee talked about his military experiences during World War II. Bovee was born on April 1, 1915, in Sioux City, Iowa. He went to Morningside College in Sioux City and then to Iowa State Teachers’ College. In 1941, he started graduate school at the University of Iowa and began teaching high school. After being drafted in 1942, he attended several training schools, including military personal training at Camp Grant, Army Clerical School, Officer Candidate School, and Adjutant General’s School of Administration in Washington, D.C. Bovee then went to Cheltenham, England and France. He mostly worked in censorship and spent his days censoring soldiers’ letters. Following the war, he received a master’s degree from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of California in Los Angeles. Bovee then became a professor at the University of Kansas. He retired in 1985 and passed on October 20, 2005. More information about this oral history can be found at http://history.lplks.org/items/show/1772.
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